New track added to player

60 Seconds, my tribute to Bruce Gilbert on the occasion of his 60th birthay in 2006, is now available to hear/download. It's as the title suggests, 60 seconds long, and was made from edits of Bruce's solo work, Dome, Wire, and a 2003 Radio 3 interview. It uses stereo separation and panning, so listening in stereo is recommended, on decent playback speakers or headphones. Mastering level a bit low, so a volume boost is recommended.

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Latest CDs reviewed in The Wire
Category: Music

Kelly/Lacey/McNulty/Vogel
Trinity College Chapel, 8 October 2005

Fergus Kelly
Leaching The Pith

"If the material that has turned up on CD is truly representative, some of the most interesting improvisation during the last few years has been made in Ireland, and Fergus Kelly, David Lacey, Dennis McNulty and Paul Vogel have had a hand in much of it. They seem able to move freely and unselfconsciously between improvisation's various sub-genres, doing things in their own sweet way. McNulty and Vogel play computers, Lacey is a percussionist whose kit includes electronics, and Kelly plays the Cabinet of Curiosities, an amplified acoustic instrument of his own making. The ritual tolling with which the Trinity College Chapel performance begins reveals the room's cavernous resonance, and the members of the quartet engage with it as much as they do with each other. In this unbroken 34-minute performance they cover a lot of ground, and the music moves through several distinct phases. As with some of the best group improvisation, its evolutionary narrative is characterised by temporal lulls, sudden developmental spurts and systemic mutations. From moment to moment the direction that the music will take is often hard to predict, and there's not a dull moment to be had.

On Leaching the Pith, Kelly's principal source material is a performance given by the quartet, in the same chapel, in 2004. Although the resonance characteristics and the instrumentation are the same, Kelly abstracts elements from the material and in the process de-emphasises the cohesiveness of the group as well as altering the pace and graduated flow of the music. He teases out elements that were tightly woven into the music's fabric and, in looping and modifying them, gives them an entirely different complexion. The CD's seven pieces, and in particular those in which the source material is represented by only a time-stretched snippet – such as "Shear", "Afterimage", and especially the exquisite "Lulling the Limbs" – shimmer in and out of focus like a mirage."

Brian Marley

Cheers Brian ! ;-)

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New track uploaded
Category: Music

A new track, Afterimage, from the CD Leaching The Pith, has been added to the player.

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2 new CDs now available

Fergus Kelly: Leaching The Pith


Gleam Lulling The Limbs Neutral And Inert

Shear Afterimage Tide Pull Seepage



Leaching The Pith was created from studio and live recordings made in 2004 by

Fergus Kelly: cabinet of curiosities

David Lacey: percussion/electronics

Dennis McNulty: computer

Paul Vogel: computer



Amnesty benefit concert at Trinity College Dublin November 2004.

Though some elements have been left clean, most of these
recordings have been significantly altered and abstracted.


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Kelly/Lacey/McNulty/Vogel: Trinity College Chapel 8 October 2005


Concert for Loving Architecture Festival

organised by The Architects Association of Ireland

Trinity College Chapel Dublin 8 October 2005


Fergus Kelly: cabinet of curiosities

David Lacey: percussion/electronics

Dennis McNulty: computer

Paul Vogel: computer



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I&E 2008 Festival photos now online
Category: Music

My photos of the 4th I&E Festival of improvised music, featuring Kai Fagashinski, Danny McCarthy and Mick O'Shea, Axel Dorner, Boris Baltschun, Martin Kuchen, Eric Carlsson, David Lacey, Paul Vogel, Roy Carroll, Jason Lescalleet and Fred Van Hove, can be viewed here

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CD launch & concert Sat. Dec 8th
Category: Music

Aphasia Recordings CD of Irish sound art, The Sound We Are Now will be launched on Saturday December 8th at 6pm in The Lab, Foley Street, Dublin 1, with a concert afterwards featuring the following (order to be decided):

Sean McCrum
Fergus Kelly and Slavek Kwi
Grainne Mulvey
SounDin
David Lacey and Paul Vogel

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New track on sound art CD
Category: Music

A new track, Fanfare For An Uncommon Man (for Paul Burwell 1949 - 2007) is featured on an Aphasia Recordings CD of Irish sound art, called The Sound We Are Now.

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Tape piece featured in Crash Ensemble’s SHINDIG 12 October

Overheard Overhead, from my CD Strange Weather has been selected as joint winner, with Ian McDonnell, in the electronic works section of The Crash Ensemble's SHINDIG event, marking their 10th anniversary this Friday the 12th of October, at SS Michael & John's in Temple Bar Dublin at 8pm.

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Volume 4 gig photos now online

Sean Óg's photos of my duo set with David Lacey for Volume 4 can now be viewed here (2nd page)

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Darklight photos & video now online

Photos by Gearóid Dolan & Sean Óg of my duo set with David Lacey for the Darklight Festival can be seen here (2nd page)

5 minute edit of gig footage shot by Gearóid Dolan can be viewed on my profile page, in my biog.

My photos of Max Eastley & Thomas Köner's set for the Darklight Festival can be seen here

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